I'm trying to be faster, I promise I am. Lol hopefully a week wasn't too long a wait? Although I am well aware that I have made y'all wait for much longer than just a week, before, so yay me I guess. Haha. And don't forget about my Ninja Storm AU, Power of Winter!

Thank you to katdovesofia, Disneyfan10, RiveraJ88, brankel1, and Dovekatsofia for your lovely comments. On to the chapter!

To put it lightly, Alpha was freaking out. The Power Rangers were children AND trapped in a photograph, there was a monster loose in the city, and the device that would reverse it refused to work. Where was Billy when he needed him? Oh right, he was de-aged to the age of 11 AND stuck in a photograph!

"Alpha, is the molecular rescrambler completed yet?" Zordon asked, calm as ever. Yes, he was worried beyond belief, but he had to have hope that the rescrambler would work and bring back his Rangers.

"I'm working on it as fast as I can, Zordon!" Alpha exclaimed; he'd be crying if he had tear ducts. "Aye-yi-yi! This is a disaster!"

"You must hurry, Alpha. The Rangers' rescue depends on this device!" Zordon said. "There is no time to spare!"

"You're telling me! Oh, woe is Alpha!"

"With Zedd having turned the Rangers into children, and imprisoning them in a photograph, there is no one to destroy his evil Rock of Time." The Rock of Time appeared on the viewing globe, glowing golden.

"Aye-yi-yi!" Alpha cried, "This is a terrible situation!"

"Our only chance is to recover the photograph," Zordon said. "And use the rescrambler to return the Rangers to normal. Now, back to work, Alpha."

"Right!" Alpha agreed, taking his laser tool back to the unfinished rescrambler.

…

Meanwhile, at the park, Bulk and Skull stood frozen behind the bush. The monster still stood there, tall and menacing. As much as Bulk and Skull hadn't really liked the group of friends, they hadn't wanted them to actually get hurt. And now they were trapped in a photograph, frozen in time as their 11-year-old selves. It was a fate they wouldn't wish on anybody.

A gust of wind picked up the picture from the grass, blowing it into the bush. Eyes wide, Bulk snatched it up.

"Whoa, the picture! We've got it!" Bulk exclaimed.

"Bring that picture to me, you little shit!" the monster exclaimed.

Bulk, who had started to run away, quickly ran back to grab Skull. "Come on, Skull, we gotta get this thing to a grownup!" Grabbing his friend, Bulk took off again, picture in hand.

"Hold on, I'm coming!" Skull exclaimed, breaking free of Bulk's death grip on his arm.

"Well hurry up!"

They ran as fast as they could, and when the camera monster was no longer behind them, they stopped.

"Do you think that camera monster is still behind us?" Skull asked.

"Of course it is, you dolt!" Bulk exclaimed. "We have something it wants!"

With that, the two took off again, only this time they didn't make it very far.

A golden lion with wings appeared, so suddenly that they ran into it.

"Hold it right there you little ankle biters!" the lion yelled, throwing the two to the ground.

"Hahaha, you're mine!" the camera monster appeared behind them as well.

Bulk and Skull looked at each other, and said the first thing that came to mind.

"Mommy!"

"Hahaha! That's a name I've never been called before!" the lion laughed.

"I don't suppose you're a good guy, are you?" Bulk asked; he had a feeling the answer was 'no' but hey, didn't hurt to ask.

"Uh-uh, definitely a bad guy!" the lion confirmed.

"I was afraid of that," Skull said.

"You better hand over that photo if you know what's good for you!" the lion demanded, pointing to the photo Bulk was still clutching protectively to his chest. "Give me that photograph, now!"

He loomed over the two young boys, his breath washing over them.

"Ugh, haven't you ever heard of breath mints?!" Bulk exclaimed in disgust.

"I'll take that as a compliment!" the lion roared. "Now, give me that photograph before I have Photomirror put you in one, too!"

Suddenly, a bright light shone behind them, causing the two bullies to turn as Alpha appeared.

"Hold it right there you big golden gorilla!" Alpha exclaimed. He held a laser stun gun in his hands, ready to defend the young boys if he had to.

"Zordon's bucket of bolts," the lion growled. "Well, I oughta-!" he got cut off as Alpha shut him with the stun gun.

"Here's a little something for you, too, sister!" Alpha turned, shooting the stun gun at Photomirror as well.

Turning, Alpha quickly realized that Bulk and Skull had taken the opportunity to start running again.

"Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! Wait you two! I need that photo!" Alpha exclaimed, running after them. "Please, wait! Don't run away!"

The boys soon made it to the school, running inside. A janitor watched them, confused; why were two students here so late after school?

"Mr. Kaplan!" Bulk exclaimed upon running into the principal. "There's a gold Devil, and a camera monster chasing us!"

"And a red little martian is after us! And the camera monster took a picture, and trapped Tommy and the others! Look!" Skull exclaimed all of this in one single breath, finally grabbing the photo from Bulk to shove it into Mr. Kaplan's face.

"What have I told you two about telling lies? Hm?" Mr. Kaplan asked, eyebrow raised at the two young boys. "Detention, for both of you!"

"Aw, man!" the boys chorused.

"Yes. I want the two of you to each write an essay on the evils of lying! Now, get in there!" Mr. Kaplan dragged the two boys to the detention room and shoved them in. "Now, I'll be back to check on you boys later."

Mr. Kaplan turned to walk away, paused when Alpha appeared in front of him, and then shrugged and kept on walking.

"Hello!"

"Whoops!" Alpha said, "Wrong hallway!" he disappeared again.

Mr. Kaplan stopped, turned, shrugged when he didn't see anything, and kept walking.

Inside the room, Skull drew mustaches on the kids in the photo, while Bulk stared out a window. "The one time we're telling the truth, and no one believes us," he said.

"Yeah!" Skull agreed.

"I can't believe it! It's not fair, it's just not fair!" coming over to his friend, Bulk saw what Skull was doing, and laughed. "Hey, that's great! That's really great, Skull! Let me draw on it, too!" he slipped the photo from under Skull's arms and grabbed a pen.

"Hey!" Skull complained.

Right then, Alpha appeared in front of them, the little robot happy to have finally found them.

The two boys promptly started screaming. "MARTIAN!" they yelled.

"Relax!" Alpha ordered. "I am not here to hurt you! I must have that photograph! When I count to three, you will fall asleep. And when you wake up, you will remember nothing! Three!"

Using his laser stun gun, Alpha sent a light, weak blast to the boys that sent them straight to sleep. It wouldn't hurt the boys, and when they woke up, they wouldn't remember what had happened.

"Works every time," Alpha said. Setting his machine to a different setting, Alpha ran the beam over the photo. "Come on, Rangers," he said.

After a moment, they appeared, still at 11 years old, but no longer stuck in the photo. Kimberly, Billy, and Jamie all had mustaches drawn on them.

Billy was the first to notice Alpha. "Let's check him out!" the young genius said. He had a black, curly mustache drawn on his upper lip.

"Amazing," Billy poked at the robot.

"Oh, that tickles!" Alpha exclaimed. "Hey, listen, I have to change you back to your real ages!"

"What are you talking about?" Adam asked.

"Well, it's kind of complicated," Alpha said. "But let me try to explain."

Alpha explained, and Jamie only became more confused. She crossed her arms. Next to her, Kimberly had wiped off the mustache on her face with the wet wipe she still had from Aisha earlier. Jamie was soon doing the same.

"So you see, it is imperative that you allow me to rescramble your molecular structure! You must believe me! There isn't much time! And the world needs the Power Rangers!"

"So you're saying that we're superheroes called the Power Rangers?" Adam asked, eyebrows up.

"This is so totally cool!" Kimberly said.

"But, we're just kids," Jamie said. "We can't be the Power Rangers."

"Yes, but what we must do is-"

"Alpha! The effect of the laser stun scanner has worn off!" the voice was coming from Alpha's communicator. "Goldar and Photomirror are back to full power. You must act quickly to restore the Power Rangers!"

Alpha nodded as he listened.

"Photomirror has begun capturing innocent people on film in the park."

"Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!" Alpha turned quickly to face the children. "Now do you believe me?!"

"We're in," Tommy said.

"Will it hurt?" Kimberly asked, looking worried and a little scared.

"No, but you can close your eyes if you would like to," Alpha said.

Taking that as their go ahead, the children linked hands and closed their eyes.

"Okay, here we go!"

Resetting the rescrambler, Alpha ran the beam over the children, and, after a few moments, they turned back into their teenage selves.

"Rangers, thank goodness!" Alpha exclaimed.

"Oh wow, that was weird," Aisha said.

Jamie put her hand up to her forehead. "Let's not do that again," she said, slightly dizzy. She shook her head, shaking away the dizziness, and Adam reached over to put a concerned hand on her shoulder.

"Guess we're back!" Kimberly exclaimed, happy to be back in her normal body again.

"Come on, guys, we gotta kick it!" Rocky exclaimed; he was just happy that his hair was back to normal. Why his mom had thought a mullet would be good for him, he'd never know.

The others easily agreed.

"Alright, it's Morphin' Time!"

"White Tiger!"

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Megaladon!"

"Triceratops!"

"Saber-Toothed Tiger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

Teleporting out from the school, the Rangers landed in the park, where Photomirror was still terrorizing park-goers.

"Try and picture this!" he exclaimed. As the Angel Grove citizens ran, screaming, Photomirror laughed as he continued to trap them into photographs. "You people are all so two-dimensional!"

"Hey!" Aisha exclaimed, "What do you think you're doing?!"

"These people are like, totally freaking out!" Kimberly said, watching as the people ran, screaming. "You guys, we gotta stop that thing!"

"Yeah, but how?" Jamie asked, looking across Adam to Kimberly.

"Don't worry, we will!" Rocky answered, looking from Kimberly to Jamie to the people in front of them.

"So, we have some new subjects!"

"There he is! And Goldar, too!" Rocky exclaimed.

"How'd you escape the photograph?!" Goldar demanded.

"I'll just shoot them again!" Threatened Photomirror.

"We didn't come here to pose, flashbulb brain!" Rocky mocked, pointing at Photomirror.

"Yeah, because we're here to shut down your photoshoot," Tommy said, "Permanently!"

Suddenly, an explosion behind Photomirror obscured the Rangers' view of him. When he reappeared, he was giant.

"Whoa!" Adam exclaimed. "This job just got bigger!"

"Zord time?" Jamie asked, glancing across to Tommy.

"You've escaped me before, but now you're going to pay!" Goldar yelled, pointing at the Rangers.

"That's what you think, Goldar!" Tommy said, "You and your camera are through! Rocky!" he turned to the Red Ranger. "Time to call your Zord and bring 'em down!"

"Right, Tommy!" Rocky agreed. "I'm on it!"

"Go! We'll take care of Goldar!"

"Tyrannosaurus Red Dragon Thunderzord Power!" Rocky called, quickly jumping into his Zord to take on Photomirror. The rest faced Goldar.

"Putties!"

A handful of the clay creatures appeared, and Jamie could almost feel Tommy smirk.

"I'll take on all you clay-heads!" the White Ranger exclaimed.

"Putties, attack!" Goldar ordered.

"You'll be sorry you messed with the White Ranger!" Tommy said, before jumping into battle with the Putties.

"Think we should go help Rocky?" Kimberly asked, seeing as she, Aisha, Jamie, Adam, and Billy had been left to their own devices, it seemed.

"That clone of his isn't going to be easy to beat," Jamie said.

"Then to Rocky we'll go," Adam said, easily falling into the leadership role without either Tommy or Rocky. "Mastodon Lion Thunderzord Power!"

"Pterodactyl Thunderbird Thunderzord Power!"

"Megaladon Orca Thunderzord Power!"

"Triceratops Unicorn Thunderzord Power!"

"Saber-Toothed Tiger Griffin Thunderzord Power!"

Creating the Thunder Megazord, the Rangers quickly made it into their cockpit, and to their stations.

Photomirror's Red Dragon Thunderzord Megazord attacked the quickly, sending the Thunder Megazord backwards. They gained their balance back pretty quickly, but then the clone hit them with a staff.

"This thing's really tough," Jamie said, gripping onto her counsel to keep from falling out of her chair.

"C'mon guys, we can't let up!" Rocky exclaimed; he was not going to lose to a camera. No. He refused.

They managed to fight the clone back, even sending it nearly into Photomirror. With it finally thrown off them, the Rangers were able to call on their Battle Saber. With it, they were able to send a powerful shot of lightening at the clone, destroying it, and wounding Photomirror in the process.

"Come on, we almost got it!" Jamie cried.

With one, last, powerful strike, Photomirror fell and was destroyed. With Photomirror destroyed, the Rangers quickly left the Thunder Megazord in order to help Tommy, who was still fighting Goldar.

"Tommy!" Exclaimed Rocky, "You got everything under control?"

"Yeah, thanks guys!" Tommy answered.

"Come in, Rangers!"

"Yes, Zordon!" Adam said.

"Sensors indicate that the Earth is becoming unstable due to Zedd's time reversal," Zordon told them. "You must locate and destroy the Rock of Time before it is too late."

"We're ready, Zordon," Tommy said. "We're through with Goldar."

"Yeah!" Rocky exclaimed, "Let's do it, Rangers!"

"You will never succeed!" Goldar threatened, disappearing in a flash of flame.

Jamie snorted. "Just watch us," she muttered.

"Zordon!" her attention was quickly brought back to Tommy. "We can't destroy the Rock of Time if we don't know where it is!"

"You will teleport to the coordinates Alpha is sending now," Zordon said. "But beware; the Rock of Time is guarded by Zedd's most powerful monsters from the past."

"We can handle it, Zordon!" Adam said, very sure of himself and his team.

"Let's do it!"

Putting their hands to their belts, the Rangers teleported. When they landed, they found themselves at the bottom of a large hill; a glowing, pulsing rock stood at the top.

"The rock's at the top of the hill," Tommy said, "let's go, guys."

"Right!" Rocky agreed.

"Okay," Kimberly added.

"We got this!" Jamie finished.

Climbing the hill wasn't easy, and Adam had to grab onto Jamie at one point when she started to slide down.

"Thanks," she said, breathless from the climb.

"No problem," the Black Ranger answered, making sure the Silver Ranger was stable before letting go of her arm.

"We're almost at the location Alpha gave us, guys," Tommy said in encouragement. All of them were tired, but they were so close! "Everybody just keep your eyes peeled!"

"Looking for something, Rangers?!"

Looking up at the voice, the seven Rangers quickly spotted Goldar, equipped with several Putties.

"Ha, you again!" Tommy mocked. "I was expecting someone a little tougher!"

"I'm the greatest warrior of all!" Goldar snapped.

Suddenly, another monster appeared; this wasn't one Jamie had delt with, a monster from the year before. It was green and slimy looking, looking as if it belonged at the bottom of the ocean.

"Not you again!" Kimberly exclaimed.

"Oh, you better believe it!" the monster exclaimed.

"We took care of you once before-" Tommy started, only to get cut off by a monster appearing behind him, another one Jamie hadn't had a part of destroying.

"Another one!"

"I can't believe it!"

"Look!" Adam called, "Oysterizer!"

"At your service!" now this one Jamie knew.

"Leave your shark friend at home?" Jamie called, taunting the oyster monster.

"Alright guys, let's split up and take these clowns!" Tommy ordered.

The Rangers quickly agreed, splitting up. Taking on the Putties, the three monsters Zedd had sent down, and Goldar proved to be a challenge, but it was one the Rangers were up to. However, while fighting Oysterizer with Billy and Adam, Jamie quickly found herself overwhelmed by the thing. It threw her to the ground, hard; she was sure to have a bruise on her side from it.

"Guys, let's regroup!" Tommy called.

"Jamie, come on!" Adam exclaimed, running over to pull her up before meeting back with the others.

"We're gonna need some extra firepower, guys," their leader said.

"Right!"

All calling on their weapons, Jamie smirked as her katana solidified into her hand. Charging forward, she spun the sword around her hand and then struck, hitting a monster who looked like a skinned Great White Shark in the head with it.

"I thought I already told your buddy," Jamie said, "The one shark in this town is ME!" With another strike of her sword, Jamie sent the shark monster to the ground, just as Kimberly sent Oysterizer onto the rocks next to it, and the two monsters exploded, leaving just the green monster, and Goldar. Adam quickly took care of the green one.

"Alright, that's the last of them!" Billy said, "Let's go help Tommy!"

Tommy and Aisha were tag-teaming Goldar, and just as the others reached them, Goldar was sent to the ground.

"Oh, you may have won the day, but you have not seen the last of Goldar!" he growled, before disappearing in a flash.

"Good job, everyone!" Tommy praised. "Now let's get rid of this Rock of Time!"

Everyone agreed, so they ran to the still glowing, pulsing rock.

"This is gonna require the Power Canon!" Billy said, quickly realizing that their weapons individually wouldn't do much to it.

"Stage 1!" Rocky, Billy, and Jamie yelled.

"Stage 2!" Aisha and Kimberly continued.

"Stage 3!" Tommy and Adam finished.

The cannon was soon in their hands and loaded.

"Power Cannon, battle ready!" Tommy said. "Rangers, lock on target! FIRE!"

With one, powerful blast, the Rock of Time exploded.

"Woah!" Adam in surprise, "We nailed that sucker! That should us back in the present time!"

"Yeah!"

"We did it!"

"Way to go!"

…

With the monster of the day defeated, Kimberly, Aisha, and Rocky went to the school to make sure Bulk and Skull were okay, while everyone else went the youth center. Tommy had a class to teach, and Billy a student to tutor, which left Adam and Jamie.

"You know, being a kid again wasn't all bad," Jamie said as she sat down at a table. "Everything seemed a little less complicated."

"I know what you mean," Adam agreed. "I don't think I'd have been such a hurry to grow up if I had known then, what I know now."

"And back then I didn't have to worry about chemistry," Jamie added, taking a notebook, textbook, and a pencil out of her backpack.

"Need some help?" Adam asked, eyebrow raised. He was pretty good at chemistry, he thought.

"Yes please," Jamie said, a shy smile gracing her lips. "Anything with math in it is just… not my strong suit."

"Luckily, chemistry is one of my best subjects," Adam said, and Jamie's smile grew. "Ah, there's that smile."

Jamie looked down then, suddenly a lot shyer. When she looked back up, Adam was grinning widely at her, so she allowed an easy grin to pull at her lips. "Thanks, Adam."

He just smiled brighter at her.